I used to complain about the way roads are layed out in places like Portland Oregon, Atlanta Georgia, Dallas Texas, but recently Google maps http://www.google.com/maps?li=lmr&hl=en&q=…&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 has started adding a number of places in Europe, and I’ve been looking at London with absolute awe at how anyone could find anything there! Oh my god! I have never seen such a rat’s-nest, twisted spaghetti of a layout of roads–for a moment I thought it might have been a joke or something, but unfortunately, it’s for real.
Things that I noticed that are just insane:
One road name, several segments of roads all over the place in every which direction.
Streets that can’t even keep their names for more than 1-2 city blocks–and change names 6 times. Hmm, blocks–does that even apply to places that are metric?
When it seems like there’s a familiar-looking grid, it’s cut-off from all the rest of the roads so there’s only one road into a big curved grid, and one road out.
Intersections with more than 5 roads! 6 road intersections that 4 roads get cut off at.
There are maybe 6 roads total that go in an actual straight line for more than a kilometer.
Almost every road except the “main” roads, end abruptly.
I’ve never seen anything so crazy. How do people navigate through that?! It looks crazy!!!
i dunno if the film “killing zoe” was in london but i imagine they drive the same as in the movie. which looked really messed up!
i dont think they have traffic lanes like in america, and i belive its pretty much a free for all when it comes to city driving. i imagine why european cars you see in films are always so small, so they can drive like maniacs and not get a scratch.
i think it would probably be a thrill for someone in america to go over there an try to drive, i would…
that map makes it look like there was no planning what so ever, just a bunch of trails that they decided to pave and build buildings around. from the films ive watched i would definetly like to visit, everything seems so full of culture. not like it is here in america where everything is designed by an anal retentive f u c k e r and went before a board of even more anal retentive assholes, and then paid a bunch of lazy drunk f u c k e r s to build it. and then raise the taxes because the lazy drunk f u c k e r s used the wrong cement.
ah now that i remember the film Killing Zoe was in paris not london but imagine its not that much different.
btw the roads all intersecting like that really makes it look like capilaries.
